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Meanwhile i understand the search algorithm. In the "Latest Article" section only rated articles are shown. In the past also unrated and new articles where shown there and tThese are the ones i'm most interested in. Is there any reason you changed this behaviour?
I can do a classic search to get the wanted articles, but the presentation is much less comfortable (also on the home page).
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I wonder if voting questions in Q&A is a good thing in it's current form. Person may ask only one or two questions and immediately receiving a vote of 1 (probably without any comments) most likely does not make him/her feel comfortable here.
If the question is really poor, we can always report and close it so would it make sense if voting on questions was not allowed until the person has posted 5 questions? If one has posted more questions than that voting them could guide in creating good questions.
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It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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What if we flip this around and ask ourselves: how can we ensure the questions that are posted end up in a form that makes them "answerable"?
Specifically:
- How can we guide users to ask reasonably-formed questions without building a system that is so rigid it makes it painful for smart people to ask
- How can we quickly identify questions that are not well formed?
- What does it take to have someone reword a poorly phrased question?
- What's our threshold to simply removing questions that show no effort or can't be salvaged?
The "post a comment and hope the poster will fix the question" isn't a viable option from what I see. I'd prefer to focus on improving questions, gently, rather than a blanket removal on our ability to filter out poor questions.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I fully agree. What I simply had in mind was questions that are understandable but they still receive votes of 1, for some reason. For example I don't see any actual reason why the following was down-voted How to count duty days in duty table in SQL server.
What comes to getting better questions, you probably have already considered this but what about possibility to 'lock' questions so that solutions cannot be added until the question is unlocked. This kind of functionality could could be a stronger signal to the person who posted the question that it needs to be clarified.
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Wendelius wrote: This kind of functionality could could be a stronger signal to the person who posted the question
The issue here is that if someone doesn't care enough to think about other people and post a well-formed question, they rarely, if ever, care enough to be "educated".
There's a lot of throwing-it-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks mentality in asking questions online. There's a point where the best use of everyone's time is to remove the chaff and focus on the wheat.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When I try to post a question, I get an internal server error.
The preview for the question shows it formatted correctly. I am using Chrome on Windows 10.
This appears to be an ongoing issue (either at my end or CP) because I got the same problem about ten days ago.
Thank you to anyone taking the time to read my posts.
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Looking into this. I might just be an intermittent database issue due to load caused by crawlers, but I'll try a eliminate the problem.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I had the same problem this morning:
- typed a Solution
- pressed submit and waited
- after a couple of seconds the error message appeared and the solution was still in 'raw' mode
- pressed browser refresh and the solution appeared as posted.
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Hi,
When I try to edit my article, I get the following message: Unfortunately you do not have permission to edit this article.
Can you please fix this?
Regards,
modified 27-Jul-19 4:47am.
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If this is still the case, can you please forward your article update to me (sean@codeproject.com)?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I use boilerplate a lot, and have a "standard message" telling people that what they have submitted as an article isn't up to snuff. It includes two pre-prepared links to an article and a tip here:
Please, look at some of the existing articles here to get an idea of the standard we expect.
Here's one of mine: <a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/728836/Using-struct-and-class-whats-that-all-about">Using struct and class - what's that all about?</a>[<a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/728836/Using-struct-and-class-whats-that-all-about" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
And here's a tip which is a lot more "code focussed": <a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1042055/Creating-a-Simple-scratch-card-Control-in-WinForms">Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms</a>[<a href="https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1042055/Creating-a-Simple-scratch-card-Control-in-WinForms" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
We moderators aren't here to make your life difficult, or to be nasty - quite the reverse, we protect the site from not-ready articles, and authors from the derision and downvotes that poorer articles can receive. And to be a moderator, you have to write articles, so we know what it feels like when you slave away on something and Joe Moron from Stupidity High School, Kansas finds out it's not what he needs to hand in as his homework ... :laugh:
If we let this though as it stands, it would - at best - be ignored, and more likely downvoted into oblivion.
I'm sure you have put a lot of effort into getting the code right, but articles aren't just about the code: the words are what matters! But when I paste it into a article message: Remember[^]
It gets the href stuff removed:
Please, look at some of the existing articles here to get an idea of the standard we expect.
Here's one of mine: Using struct and class - what's that all about? []
And here's a tip which is a lot more "code focussed": Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms[]
We moderators aren't here to make your life difficult, or to be nasty - quite the reverse, we protect the site from not-ready articles, and authors from the derision and downvotes that poorer articles can receive. And to be a moderator, you have to write articles, so we know what it feels like when you slave away on something and Joe Moron from Stupidity High School, Kansas finds out it's not what he needs to hand in as his homework ... :laugh:
If we let this though as it stands, it would - at best - be ignored, and more likely downvoted into oblivion.
I'm sure you have put a lot of effort into getting the code right, but articles aren't just about the code: the words are what matters! The only way I could get the links in was to manual y remove the "rubbish" and just paste the URL instead.
This has worked for years and suddenly stopped in the last few days.
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Works for me:
And here's a tip which is a lot more "code focussed": Creating a Simple "scratch card" Control in WinForms[^]
Have you accidentally selected the "strip HTML" option in the paste options box?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nope, "As is" is the option I select.
And a quick check says it's working again.
There's something going rather flaky here ... oh well, if we can;t reproduce it, it can't be fixed...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did you have the "use markdown" or "Treat my content as plain text" checkboxes checked?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I never turn them on. Or off, come to that. And they are certainly set to "off" at the moment.
Is it possible it's related to the "random filter preference" or "random page view preferences" problems that were there at a similar time IIRC?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's certainly possible. We're discussing that issue this afternoon.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When submitting a QA solution, I get:
Quote: An unexpected error occurred while attempting to create your new entry. Please try again later.
When I reload the page, the solution has been posted.
(Firefox 68.0.1, ad-blocker disabled.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Same thing happened once using Chrome today.
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Was that around midday your time? I can see there was a single database timeout that would have sent that error, but it seems the retry system kicked in without telling the error system not to bother complaining.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It affected everything I posted today, covering roughly midday to 4PM.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Problem still there.
problem is there since a couple of days.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I had it a couple of times as well, over a multi-hour period.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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